You're welcome, snowflower..
@Georgie the Valient: here are the steps to download a Photoshop filter:
1. Click the Sparkle file link to download it.
2. A window will pop up saying
"Do you want to open or save this file?"
3. Click
open.
4. A window will pop up with "sparkle.8bf" ...
5. To the left under "Folder Tasks", click on
"Extract all files".
6. The extraction wizard will pop up.
7. To continue, click "
Next".
8.
Select a destination.
(Files inside the ZIP archive will be extracted to the location you choose)
To do so,
Browse to find where your Photobie is on the computer. (For me, it's
My Computer/Local Disk (C: )/Program Files/Photobie.
9. Click on the
Plugin folder in Photobie.
10. Click
OK.
11. Click
Next to extract the file...
etc. etc...
1. Now open up your Photobie
2. In the top menu bar, click
Filter.
3. Scroll down until you see
---Photoshop 8BF Filters---
4. To the right, click on
"Load/refresh filters in Plugin directory"
Now you can open an image and play around with the filter!
Just remember to "Load/refresh filters" each time you open Photobie...